Written in 1980, this novel by prize-winning Indian writer Mahasweta Devi, translated and introduced by Gayatri Chakravorty Sprivak, is remarkable for the way in which it touches on vital issues that have in subsequent decades grown into matters of urgent social conern.
From the beloved author of Treasure Island Originally serialized in a periodical of boys’ adventure fiction, The Black Arrow is a swashbuckling portrait of a young man’s journey to discover the heroism within himself. Young Dick Shelton, caught in the midst of England’s War of the Roses, finds his loyalties torn between the guardian who will ultimately betray him and the leader of a secret fellowship, The Black Arrow. As Shelton is drawn deeper into this conspiracy, he must distinguish friend from foe and confront war, shipwreck, revenge, murder, and forbidden love, as England’s crown threatens to topple around him.
Robert Louis Stevenson - The Black Arrow. (level 1)Robert Louis Stevenson
Set in 15th-century England, this is the exciting story of Richard Shelton and the band of the Black Arrow. Sir Daniel is like a father to Richard, but one day Richard discovers a terrible truth from the past. Now he must fight against Sir Daniel and his men. Can Richard save his true love, Joanna, from an unhappy marriage? Can he and the band of the Black Arrow bring justice to England?
Ask the children what the weather is, have one child look out the window and decide what the weather is and move the arrow.
To prepare, cut the circle out, paste it on cardboard and use contact paper to cover it. Then cut out the arrow, paste on heavy board, contact paper it cut it out and attach it with a brad.
Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time
Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the other way around? What does quantum mechanics really tell us about the world? In this important and accessible book, Huw Price throws fascinating new light these great mysteries of modern physics, and connects them in a wholly original way.
